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________________ LIFE OF MAHAVIRA. 53 CHAPTER III. THE COURT OF SIDDHARTHA. Such were the prosperity-foreboding dreams which when the lotus-eyed queen, mother of the Tirthankar, had seen, she wakened up; and, fixing the dreams firmly in her memory, and descending from her couch by means of the footstool, went to the place where the Kshastriya Siddhartha was lying in his bed asleep. There serenading him with her gentle and sweet voice, in these words :-" Thou art most noble, most amiable, most beloved, most worthy of being thought on and delighted in, most mighty, prosperous, gentle, wealthy, bounteous, fortunate, and worthy of all the affection of the heart, the disperser of hostile armies","—she * In the original these are all epithets of fort that is, f: but I am informed that the meaning is as given, and sneh an enumeration of the qualities of a great man bsan officer who goes before, is still a necessary part of Hindu ceremonial on publie occasions.
SR No.007585
Book TitleKalpasutra
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorJ Stevenson
PublisherOriental Translation Fund London
Publication Year1818
Total Pages172
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English, Prakrut, English, Hindi, & agam_kalpsutra
File Size9 MB
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